Schiff Accuses Intelligence Community of Withholding Documents from Congress ‘On the Issue of Ukraine’

‘The intelligence community is reluctant to have an open hearing, something that we had done every year prior to the Trump Administration because they’re worried about angering the president’

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SCHIFF: "Unfortunately I think those reports are all too accurate. The intelligence community is reluctant to have an open hearing, something that we had done every year prior to the Trump Administration because they’re worried about angering the president. Well, part of their job is to speak truth to power, and I’m worried they’re succumbing to this administration, and something more concerning is they’re beginning to withhold documents on the issue of Ukraine. They’re succumbing to pressure from the administration, the NSA in particular who is withholding what are potentially relevant documents on Ukraine, but also withholding documents that the senators might want to see in the trial. That’s deeply concerning, and there are signs the CIA may be on the same tragic course. We are counting on the intelligence community not only to speak truth to power, but to resist pressure from the administration to withhold information from Congress because it fears they may incriminate them."

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